On a recent morning, Mr. Suleiman, a 36-year-old father of three, retrieved an alarm clock that he received with his furnished apartment.

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She had a fully furnished Manhattan apartment which she had treated as her principal residence for the last two years (She had moved there from West 57th street.) She was in the process of extending the lease for two years, with an early out option.

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Mr. Lynskey is selling the apartment fully furnished.

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In the Ural Mountains, officials have threatened to confiscate children because a family's apartment is sparsely furnished, or the refrigerator is empty, one news site reported.

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Amid messy allegations that the purchase was actually a front for her divorcing father, Dmitry Rybolovlev, to stash cash, the apartment is rumored to be scantly furnished and rarely used.

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Holmes had booby-trapped his sparsely furnished third-floor, one-bedroom unit apartment with more than 30 homemade grenades and 10 gallons of gasoline, a law enforcement official who viewed video showing the apartment's interior has told CNN.

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